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" UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

WILLIAM H. R. TOYE, on NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE FABRICORNAMENTING AND MANUFACTURING ooMPANY, on SAME PLACE.

PROCESS OF ORNAMENTING FABRICS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,301, dated November29, 1881,

Application filed August 17, 1881. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. R. Tom,

a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and Stateof New York, have in-.

from each other; in distributing and more or less intermingling thedifferent masses or deposits of color; and, finally, in subjecting thepowdered surface to pressure, whereby the colors are fixed to the fabricthrough the medium of the adhesive ground first applied. In said LettersPatent 1 have also described the necessary mechanical instrumentalitiesfor carrying out the said process of ornamenting fabrics.

My present invention relates to the application of an adhesive substanceor composition, technically termed a size, to the surface of a fabric asa ground for the subsequent application of the dry color.

The invention consists in the application of adhesive sizes or groundsof two or more different colors, each color occupying a diderent portionof the surface to be decorated, or overlapping each other, whereby theornamental efl'ect of the completed fabric is materially enhanced.

My improvement may be advantageously employed in connection with theapparatus and process set forth in said Letters Patent, although notconfined thereto.

The adhesive substance or size which I prefer to employ is that used inthe aitsfor example, in printing, as a medium for causing bronze-p0 wderto adhere to paper-Which consists of a composition of equal proportions,by

weight, of commercial varnish and white lead. When prepared in this waythe size forms a ground of a white or neutral color, and hence hascomparativelylittle effect upon the appearance of the fabric whenfinished.

In carrying out my present invention I prepare the said adhesivesubstance or size of various colors, as the taste orjudgment of theoperator may dictate, by mixing proper commercial coloring materialstherewith, and I apply these different-colored sizes to different partsor the same part of the surface to be ornamented, in any suitablemanner, preferably by a process of printing. The patterns may bearbitrarily arranged in any combination preferred. Thus, a ground may belaid upon paper in stripes or hands or geometrical or other ornamentedfigures, different portions of which may be composed ofdifferent-colored sizes. These may be placed upon different portions ofthe surface of the fabric, or one over the other upon the same portion,or partly overlapping and partly separate, substantially in the manneremployed in the well-known process of ornamental printing in inks ofdifferent colors. After this preliminary operation has been completed,dry colors or bronze-powder may be distributed and intermingledthereupon, in accordance with the process set forth in my former LettersPatent hereinbefore referred to, or any other convenient or desiredmethod of ornamentation may be employed.

The resultant artistic effect is thus far superior in depth, richness,and variety to any which can be obtained by the employment of a singlegroundcolor, and hence the process constitutes a material improvementinthe art.

I do not desire to confine myself to the use of the particular method ofapplying dry col ors upon the adhesive grounds as set forth in my formerLetters Patent, although my improvement is peculiarly adapted to be usedin connection with, or more properly as a part of, the process thereinset forth; but it may also be used with manifest advantage in connection with other modes of applying dry colors or bronze-powder to asized surface.

I claim as my invention- The hereinbefore-dcscribed. process of orna- Intestimony whereof I have hereunto submenting fabrics, which consists inan applicascribed my name this 16th day of August, A.D.

cation of an adhesive ground of two or more 1881.

separate colors upon the same or different WILLIAM H. R. TOYE. parts ofthe fabric, in connection with the de- Witnesses: position of powderedcolors or bronze-s ther-e- CHARLES A. TERRY,

upon. I MILLER O. EARL.

